Oil-burner.



A. A. D. SHEPARD.

01L BURNER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 3.1915.

1,181,413. Patented May2,1916.

A TTUR/VEY IL PATENT IfiE.

OIL-BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 2, 1916.

Application filed July 3, 1915. Serial No. 37,806.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT A. D. Sinai ARD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Seattle, in the county of King and State of lVasliington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil- Burners, of which the following is a full, true, and exact specification.

My invention relates to oil burners for use with boilers, stoves or the like, and has for its principal object to provide an improved and novel device in which water is converted into steam and as such is discharged in close proximity with heated oil against a mixing and deflecting pan from which the mixture of oil and steam is deflected to the burning flame.

A further object is to provide adjustable means for regulating the quantity of oil and I steam.

Still another object is to provide means for adjusting the deflecting pans so that the mixture may be thrown ofl at any desired angle.

Other objects will appear as my invention is more fully explained in the following specification, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a part plan view of my device with parts broken away. Fig. 2 is a cross sectional elevation of same.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, numeral 1 indicates a hollow body having an oil chamber 2 and a water chamber 3 separated by a partition 4.

5 and 6 are water and oil inlet connections respectively and connect from sources not shown to chambers 3 and 2 respectively.

Ranged on either side of body 1 in horizontal lines, are oil lugs 7 and water lugs 8, one of each forming a pair which are in vertical alinement. Each lug is tapped for a valve plug 9 or 10 respectively. The plugs 9 and 10 are counter-bored from the inner end and from the side a passage connects with the said counter-bored passage. Connecting holes are also bored through lugs 7 and 8 and at such angles that their center lines produced will strike a deflecting pan 11 so that the stream of steam is but slightly behind the oil stream. Pans 11 are concaved on their upper face and are adjustably mounted on body 1 by ball and socket joints 12 and screws 13.

It will be understood that the burner is suspended within the firebox of the stove or boiler and that the oil and water are supplied under pressure. The amount of oil and water calculated to make a correct mixture is regulated by setting plugs 9 and 10 so that the openings in the said plugs and the lugs 7 and 8 respectively either wholly register or only partially so. The oil and water may be shut off by simply turning the plugs until the holes are out of register. A pair of plugs and a pan constitute a unit of which there may be any desired number ranged along the body 1 and each of which acts independently of the others. The heat from the oil fire is sufficient to change the water into steam which disintegrates the oil as they are deflected from the pans 11 to the point of ignition. The pans 11 may be adjusted so that the mixture of oil and steam may be deflected in any desired direction so that several units may be arranged to have the same point of ignition or they may be arranged to have varying points of ignition as desired.

What I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is:

1. In an oil burner, the combination of a combined oil and water casing, having oil and water compartments being separated by a partition, pairs of adjustable valves one in each compartment adapted to discharge converging streams of oil and steam, deflecting pans one for each pair of valves, and means for adjusting the position of said pans whereby the converging streams of oil and steam are inter-mixed and deflected at any desired angle to an ignition point.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination of an oil compartment, a water compartment in which water is converted into steam, pairs of plug valves adapted to throw converging streams of oil and steam, one communicating with each compartment, and adjustable concave deflection pans one for each pair of valves, whereby the converging streams of oil and steam are intermixed and deflected to an ignition point.

3. In a device of the character described, including a body having separate oil and water compartments therein and adapted to be suspended within the combustion chamber of a furnace, the combination of pairs of plug valves one communicating with each of the said oil and Water compartments and arvalves positioned Within the path of the ranged to throw converging streams of oil converging streams of oil and steam, ball and steam, said valves including cored screw and socket adjustable means for varying the 10 plugs screwed into lugs on said body and position of said pans whereby the oil and having outlet holes which normally regissteam are intermixed and deflected at any ter With converging holes in said lugs, condesired angle.

cave deflecting pans, one for each pair of ALBERT A. D. SHEPARD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

